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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Lol the lack of finance education on this forum is a daily source of mirth for me. We were absolutely staring down a hyperinflation apocalypse in 2008. There were hundreds and hundreds of self congratulatory articles written about how the p
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I love these finance articles. It’s like asking “could this recession be as bad as the 1930s?” Like sure the stock market may fall that much but will a reduction in output cause THAT much hardship? Likely not. But if you don’t write a tanta
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Are .. are you saying it’s a bad thing children can’t handle dangerous chemicals anymore? Wut?!
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Our understanding of gravity isn’t complete. General relativity looks relatively unbreakable but the smartest minds agree non particle gravity just doesn’t make sense in an otherwise QFT universe so we’re missing something deeper. Whether t
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
People may have no desire to build the next aws. That is fine too. He’s not claiming to have a world changing job.
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Again this is incorrect. The only thing we have is artificial food security where we have issues with transport despite manufacturing enough to end global hunger. There isn’t enough housing to accommodate everyone. If you mean there are eno
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Unless you are born disabled, you’d better be born in a society that values hard work. At least until we reach self sustaining societies where no one needs to work, the dynamics of which are not worth speculation from our current standpoint
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Yeah exactly. I don’t think of a worker who wants to stick to 9-5 as worth less until appraisal. I may still give them a full rating but not as much in bonus. You’re already paid plenty just to do your daily job. If anyone is going above an
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Yes. Typically the guy who is working harder also happens to have varied interests. I’ve yet to see a work drone without an outside life who is doing 24/7 work. If I see them, I’d definitely limit them from work. I was the same 23 yo.
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
This is nonsense. You want to muzzle a hard worker because you think the rest of the workforce will not match up? What I count is the output, not if people are working evenings and nights or during the workday. Work output is capped by what
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Don’t worry. Online forums are always like that. They’ll pretend like they’ve never had a high pressure job that paid out handsomely if you applied yourself and hence motivated you to work harder. To them, they think everyone should have wo
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I can’t believe this is a tech forum. The answer is simple. 2FA has a url. All you have to do is store the url in your password manager. Then you can import it into any new app at a moment’s notice (as long as you have access to the vault)
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
It’s the next frontier and an area for expanding our technological prowess, even if we disregard the doomer psychology aspect of it. We have so much shit to do to even mine the asteroid belt that the next 100 years will look as different fr
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
There are no 7 figure dev roles in finance except in very select hedge funds where one time bonuses in 5 or 6 years may be that large. 6 figure is the norm. At 7 figures, you’re likely in management and not working on technical details.
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
This is incorrect. It is gross economic output which includes investments. Investments is real net change in money. It’s not “made up”.
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
GNP and GDP are very close measures. If people spend a few minutes reading instead of trying their hardest to comment first with what little knowledge of economics they have rattling around their skull, they’d know that GNP does not make an
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
GDP is not what people randomly think it is. It is a measure of the economic output of a country. It isn’t about equality or productivity or did the money build a ghost town etc. If we had the magical mathematics to encode that much in a si
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
May be true elsewhere but not in New York. I can play off the uninitiated immigrant card. The system is bad but that doesn't mean I comply with it. I know one of the consequences of my action is a poorly paid wait staff. But it is the
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Generally they check in only once a meal and in the better restaurants, they are better about when to approach your table. There is a way that the tipping system helps - my boss tips massive amounts every time we have lunch (once a week or
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I have the same issues with being told to apply myself. It's a common story for people in the 95-99th percentile regardless of whether or not there is an ailment holding them back. I am not trying to reduce what people are going throug
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Yeah I agree. The only person who made total sense was Luo Ji and even he went like completely ballistic by the third book. The female character sucked so hard, I doubted if the author had ever written a female character before. It was Asim
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I disagree on Three Body Problem. Especially the second book which I thought was even better than the first. The third was pretty meh and I didn't entirely like the resolution. But the first book is really great imo.
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
This is so true. My friend got a ADHD diagnosis very late in life and it became so much of his fucking identity. Thankfully, he was smart enough to know the dangers of abusing adderall so he took it in moderation. But he refused to listen t
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
They’re not equivalent statements. Dictators can be fine with making their countries poorer but still maintain internet access. There is a critical point (which isn’t well defined because we’re probably the only species in the universe at o
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
It is game theory. Consider what happens in the real world - it is strictly easier for Iran or any country with a competent infrastructure to just shut down the big internet pipelines for retail customers. They don’t do that. China has spen
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I mean this is now an absurd conversation. You’re claiming you’ll break down all mathematical functions and convert them to work exclusively with integers instead of real numbers. So you’re proposing writing an entirely new mathematical sta
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I’m telling you you have no idea how anything works or why design choices are made in fields where you’re holding forth with an authority inversely proportional to your ignorance. Your very basic and ignorant idea of mathematics or modern f
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
Ah man, using Newton raphson to find a numerical root of a single number. Even Taylor series would’ve been an acceptable answer but this just looks like you searched “root finding” and pasted the first result here. The mistakes are just com
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I mean, even not knowing the nuances of modern implementations of floating point arithmetic (which even I don’t fully grasp since I work very very far from the silicon on a daily basis), the whole concept of “I can reduce finance math to 4
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by hnews_account_1 4y ago
You will reduce finding the 5th root of a number to a 4 function arithmetic? This should be a nice trick. Are you suggesting people do a bottom up search from 0? Or some other mind blowing mathematical property of exponents and logarithms t

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